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Finding hope for the New Year

By Charles Clary

Posted:
01/03/2013 06:05:51 PM MST

The New Year is upon us with all the uncertainties that it may hold. The fiscal cliff, the negative economy, and the potential for drug wars, Muslim wars, class wars, and who knows what wars that we have never even thought about. The Bible tells us that there will be wars and rumors of wars.

While we usually look forward to the New Year, I think we all wonder what the New Year holds. I am certainly not a prophet, soothsayer, or astrologer, but I do know that God holds the future. In Isaiah 43:18-19, God says, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am dong a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?" God has great things for those who worship and serve Him.

If taxes are going up, our faith needs to be going up as well. If our standard of living is going down, we had better not let our hope go down. When others are not loving us, we need to keep on loving them. His promise is that He will meet all our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19.

We are a people who need to have faith, hope, and love. And God promises those through Jesus.

We have a New Year. We have three hundred, sixty-five new days to fill full with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life is found in Jesus Christ. Liberty is found in Jesus Christ. And happiness is found in Jesus Christ.

I hope that you will join me in trusting God in the days ahead. I hope that you will join me in the hoping in Christ Jesus in the days ahead.

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I pray that you will join me in the love that God gives us for Him, others and, ourselves in the days ahead. If we have faith, hope, and love, the New Year will be a good one and we will be blessed.